Portrait of the portraitist
The chosen ones: Close's models
Photographs into paintings
Looking into himself: the self-portraits
The first big one: the 1968 big self-portrait
The hairy revolutionary: the descendents of a 1975 photograph
Dotted faces: 1986 and 1987
Posthospital mirrorings and phantoms: 1991-95
Color close-ups: 1996 and 1997
Back to raw basics: black-and-white masks, 2002-03
Simplifying the syntax: 2004-05
